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Has anyone had any experience with syncing the Visor Deluxe using a USB cradle in Linux? Mandrake 7.1 includes a Palm Sync program, but its designed to work with serial ports, not USB.

Any advice or solutions?

Thanks.

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Kevin Mitchell
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Unless you are comfortable building your own kernal (and using BETA source for USB), you're SOL . . . that is until Linus et al complete the 2.4 kernal. If you want to go the build-your-own route, search the entire discussion forum, as there was a thread on this in the past . . .

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USB sync works with Mandrake 7.2

malsync and pilot-xfer seem to work fine via USB under mandrake 7.2. Even PPP over USB works presumably around 900k but is throttled by my dialup ISP

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Well, I've done it. Not with Mandrake but with SuSE 6.3. It wasn't exactly "Rocket Science" but it wasn't real easy either. Basically, you do have to be very comfortable with patching and building the kernel and then installing it. I'm not near my computer right now so I can't check exactly what I did but my best recollection is that I used the 2.4 USB backport. This is the USB code from Linux 2.4 made into a patch that can be applied to a particular 2.2 Linux kernel version. Usually you can find it at one of the SuSE web sites. As for documentation, there is (or was) a FAQ available at usbvisor.sorceforge.net and that did help a lot. And, as a previous post said, it's a good idea to search the Discussion Forum of VisorCentral for the USB/Visor thread.

Bottom line is that it can be done but it would probably be much easier when Linus etal. finish the 2.4 kernel.

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Another Visor/Linux Resource

Some of the info looks like a retread, but it reads well.

http://alllinuxdevices.com/news_sto...27-001-03-PS-HH